THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2006
Volume 5, Issue 70
Santa Monica Daily Press A newspaper with issues
DAILY LOTTERY
Feds have praise for SMURRF treatment
Good sports, those gals
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BY RYAN HYATT Daily Press Staff Writer
NEWS OF THE WEIRD BY
CHUCK
SANTA MONICA PIER — Federal representatives toured a state-ofthe-art Santa Monica water treatment facility on Wednesday, saying other communities can learn from City Hall’s seaside attempts to improve its environment. Benjamin H. Grumbles, assistant administrator for Water with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, toured Santa Monica’s Urban Runoff Recycling Facility (SMURRF) on Wednesday, as part of a water regulatory meeting being held locally this year. Urban runoff — the surface
SHEPARD
Two physicians, in a December note in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, wrote glowingly of the ability of the Super Soaker Max-D 5000 squirt weapon to quickly and safely loosen severely impacted ear wax (knowledge learned from an emergency use when no standard ear-syringing equipment was available). In fact, they wrote, since the Super Soaker holds much more water than the standard equipment, using it would actually shorten patients’ office visits. (However, the Super Soaker was obviously not anticipated for medical use; its awkward design assured that patient and doctor would be drenched by excess spray.)
TODAY IN HISTORY
See SMURRF, page 8
Today is the 33rd day of 2006. There are 332 days left in the year. This is Groundhog Day.
LOCAL
On Feb. 2, 1943, the remainder of Nazi forces from the Battle of Stalingrad surrendered in a major victory for the Soviets in World War II.
District, college eye a level playing field
QUOTE OF THE DAY
BY KEVIN HERRERA
“It was naive of the 19th century optimists to expect paradise from technology — and it is equally naive of the 20th century pessimists to make technology the scapegoat for such old shortcomings as man’s blindness, cruelty, immaturity, greed and sinful pride.”
Daily Press Staff Writer
mercial activity along the west side of the Boardwalk, according to Councilman Bill Rosendahl, whose 11th District jurisdiction includes Venice. The new ordinance, which fol-
CITYWIDE — The Santa Monica-Malibu Board of Education is expected tonight to move forward with a jointeffort to install the latest in artificial turf at John Adams Middle School, where grass fields are being worn away by constant use. The board of trustees at Santa Monica College voted in December of 2005 to join with the school district and use money from Measure S, an athletics improvement bond, to replace fields at John Adams with all-weather, synthetic turf while maintaining the dirt portions needed for baseball and softball games. The school board must now approve the joint effort before
See VENICE BEACH, page 7
See TOUGH TURF, page 9
PETER F. DRUCKER
INDEX Horoscopes In the limelight, Cancer
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Snow & Surf Report Water temperature: 57°
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Opinion Power to the people
4
Venice Beach: Free to be you and me
5
BY RYAN HYATT
State Coach headed to jail
Daily Press Staff Writer
National Socking it to the sockeye
6
Comics Strips tease
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Classifieds
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Fabian Lewkowicz/Daily Press GIRL POWER: (At top) Sixth-grade girls from John Adams Middle School take part in a surfing drill on Wednesday during the YWCA Santa Monica/Westside’s 20th Annual National Girls and Women in Sports Day. (Bottom) Gymnastics instructor Eliza Voita, from Broadway Gymnastics, assists Brittany Jolivette on the balance bar. The day included motivational talks by athletes, activities and healthy lifestyle info.
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DOWNTOWN LA — The beach dedicated to freedom is free again, so officials say. The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday unanimously
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